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We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.\nWe champion modern, balanced working and offer a hybrid setup, asking you to collaborate in person 2 days a week from our Sofia office.\nKey Duties and Responsibilities\nAs a QA Engineer at Waracle, you will play a vital role in ensuring the quality and care behind the digital products we build. Operating at an independent, impactful level, you will design and run thoughtful test journeys based on project requirements. If you enjoy collaborating across teams, building out automated testing frameworks, and helping welcome and support new team members, you will thrive in this role.\nTest Design: Designing and running tests independently, assessing the risk of code and configuration changes using product personas to guide user journeys.\n\nAutomation Engineering: Building and maintaining regression automation packs and configuring them to run within CI pipelines for timely feedback.\n\nObservability: Using logs and dashboards to investigate issues and validate system health during the testing lifecycle.\n\nNFR Execution: Executing scripted and manual tests across non-functional areas (Security, Performance, Accessibility) using standard tools.\n\nStakeholder Communication: Providing concise status updates in stand-ups and explaining complex QA issues in accessible language for non-technical audiences.\n\nProcess Improvement: Implementing local process enhancements and evaluating new tools or techniques to improve team efficiency.\n\nCollaboration: Managing QA tasks independently and supporting the onboarding of new team members into the squad’s QA workflows.\n\nRequirements\nWhat You’ll Bring\nWe know that excellent QA professionals come from all backgrounds, and no one matches a job description 100%. If you meet the core requirements below and are excited about the role, please apply - we value potential, adaptability, and diverse perspectives just as much as checkboxes!\nProven experience as a QA Engineer, preferably within a fast-paced digital consultancy or client-facing environment.\n\nAutomation skills, with the ability to write clean code, maintain existing testing frameworks, and write new automated test scripts.\n\nSolid understanding and practical application of QA best practices, standards, and Agile/SDLC methodologies.\n\nSolid technical competence in functional and non-functional testing, with an awareness of white-box testing and security testing fundamentals.\n\nAbility to work independently with minimal supervision while collaborating effectively with peers and contributing positively to team technical discussions.\n\nExperience in analysing requirements, defining test cases, ensuring comprehensive test coverage, and executing test plans.\n\nStrong problem-solving skills, including proactive defect identification, logging, tracking, and assisting in triage.\n\nClear and effective communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to team members and participate confidently in team meetings.\n\nAbility to efficiently learn and adapt to new project domains, technologies, and client sectors.\n\nWhat to expect from our hiring process\nFirst Hello: An informal chat with your dedicated Talent Attraction Partner to talk about Waracle, what you want out of your next move, salary, benefits, and office hybrid working model.\n\nCraft Showcase: A focused take-home task to demonstrate craft expertise, critical thinking and your real-world expertise.\n\nTalking Impact: A collaborative deep dive into how you solve problems, work with others, and raise the bar, guided by our core values and competency framework.\n\nYour Talent Attraction Partner will be in your corner through every step right up to your Welcome Ritual on day one\nOur Benefits\nWe believe in supporting our team, inside and outside of work. 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